After twenty years Computer Aided Sperm Analysis has developed considerably and is now routinely used in many laboratories across the world. The advantage of the CASA methodology available is twofold: Analysis of particularly sperm concentration, sperm motility, sperm morphology and vitality is quantified in an Background manner. Secondly, most of the CASA analysis with the exception of sperm m...

For speech segregation, a recurrent blind separation model (BSS) is tested together with a Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (CASA) model, which is based on the localisation cue and the evaluation of the Time Delay Of Arrival (TDOA). The test database is composed of 332 binary mixture sentences recorded in stereo with a static set-up. These are truncated at 1 second for the simulations. For...

This section describes the research efforts and progress made for the implementation and performance of the quantum mechanical reactive scattering application (3D-REACT) across CASA heterogeneous computer environments with nodes that can reside at geographically different locations. This is a scientifically and technically important application. The formalism uses a symmetrized hyperspherical c...

We investigate the packet delay and loss characteristics of the wide-area HIPPI-based CASA gigabit testbed. Developed for high{speed local area device interconnects, HIPPI is a point{to{point, connection{oriented protocol. We show HIPPI blocking can degrade performance by increasing delay and/or packet loss. In the CASA network under conditions of blocking, a tradeoo exists between packet loss ...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Lt doi:10.1016/j.chb.2008.05.003 q This project was completed as a thesis by the fi * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 815 753 7012. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.D The Computers As Social Actors (CASA) research paradigm has examined how individuals respond to computers programmed to interact in various ways. In the current research, we exte...

Early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand includes different philosophical perspectives, may be part of the public or private sector and aims to be inclusive and holistic. The early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki, supports these aims. Aspects of the curriculum that are holistic may be conceptualized in diverse ways and this qualitative research focused on the spiritual. Case studies w...

Orazio Palmieri 1,*,† ID , Teresa Maria Creanza 2,3,† ID , Fabrizio Bossa 1, Tiziana Latiano 1, Giuseppe Corritore 1, Orazio Palumbo 4, Giuseppina Martino 1, Giuseppe Biscaglia 1 ID , Daniela Scimeca 1, Massimo Carella 4, Nicola Ancona 2 ID , Angelo Andriulli 1 and Anna Latiano 1 1 IRCCS ‘Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza’, Division of Gastroenterology, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy; f.bossa@o...

In this paper, we investigate the Casacore Table Data System (CTDS) used in the casacore and CASA libraries, and methods to parallelize it. CTDS provides a storage manager plugin mechanism for third-party developers to design and implement their own CTDS storage managers. Having this in mind, we looked into various storage backend techniques that can possibly enable parallel I/O for CTDS by imp...

In Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) families of systems are designed, rather than developing the individual systems independently. Combinatorial Interaction Testing has proven to be effective for testing in the context of SPLE, where a representative subset of products is chosen for testing in place of the complete family. Such a subset of products can be determined by computing a so ca...